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04-08-2012, 10:11 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern IL
Posts: 26,892
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Originally Posted by Nords
I suspect that every few months the "Top Ten Ignored Posters" list comes up for review.
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Originally Posted by Bestwifeever
[mod hat]vBulletin probably allows a lot of things that some forums might use, but as far as the "most ignored list" here, it's pretty much on my personal virtual "ignore list" as a mod. Not much of a "big brother factor" going on there. I can't remember the last time I thought to look at it.[/mod hat]
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Originally Posted by Bestwifeever
[mod hat on]Umm, it doesn't work that way. Maybe it did when Nords was a mod several years ago, and as I said above there probably are a lot of vBulletin features available but there just ain't no double secret list of most ignored posters being generated for this group of mods.[/mod hat off]
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Originally Posted by Alan
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[modhat on]Having seen these posts, I went and looked up the ignored poster list. I haven't looked at it in quite a while. [modhat off]
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Based on these replies, I suspect that Nord's suspicions are suspect. What do you suppose?
-ERD50
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04-08-2012, 10:25 AM
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#82
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Originally Posted by ERD50
Based on these replies, I suspect that Nord's suspicions are suspect. What do you suppose?
-ERD50
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[mod hat OFF] I suspect that your suspicions that Nords suspicions are suspect, are simply suppositions and surely suspect. 
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04-08-2012, 11:02 AM
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#83
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Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pacific NW
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I'm confused.... 
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04-08-2012, 11:45 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 12,901
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[mod hat on]
There is a reason why we do not use the ignored poster list as a moderation tool: It's pretty useless. Being ignored by 5 people is not the same when you have 100 or 10,000 posts under your belt. And besides, few people use the ignore function, which means that the sample size is small and the data probably skewed.
[mod hat off]
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04-08-2012, 11:51 AM
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#85
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern IL
Posts: 26,892
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Most assuredly, a series of successively sportive responses, similar to this sequence, risks suppressing the life span of my "S" key.
As we are soon hosting a social gathering, I should submit to my spouse's suggestion that I suspend this silly saga.
Happy Easter!
-ERD50
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04-08-2012, 11:56 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Originally Posted by ERD50
Most assuredly, a series of successively sportive responses, similar to this sequence, risks suppressing the life span of my "S" key.
As we are soon hosting a social gathering, I should submit to my spouse's suggestion that I suspend this silly saga.
Happy Easter!
-ERD50
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Happy Easter!!
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04-08-2012, 07:29 PM
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#87
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: No fixed abode
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Originally Posted by FIREd
And besides, few people use the ignore function, which means that the sample size is small and the data probably skewed.
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I think using the ignore function is pretty much a waste of time. I've used it, but I would say 90% of the time someone quotes the ignored poster's post and I end up seeing it anyway. And in many cases, by the time I get around to ignoring someone they tend to disappear from the forum, either banned or driven away.
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04-09-2012, 09:49 AM
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#88
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: NC
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I had accumulated 5 on my ignore list, but I cleared my list as a result of this thread. I found I was often viewing their posts anyway (often in someone else's reply), some were worth reading, others not IMO. I try not to take myself so seriously as to be put off so easily...it's not like I have to read every post/word.
There have been about 5 others who were once on my ignore list, who mysteriously disappeared from this site (don't know, don't care).
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04-09-2012, 10:42 AM
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#89
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Heck, I am just hoping the moderators would ignore ME........... 
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04-09-2012, 02:51 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
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Sometimes I would like to ignore my SO but I can't seem to locate the correct button .
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04-09-2012, 07:03 PM
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#91
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Naples
Posts: 2,179
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OK you guys, I've read enough. I'm confused. Good night!
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04-13-2012, 09:50 PM
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#92
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Mar 2011
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I'm with Redbug and Johnnie. I don't see what the value of the ignore function is. Can't you just skip over their posts? I am very interested in what everyone has to say. Maybe when I am not so green here I will feel differently. There is entertainment value in scoffing at a post you disagree with too, don't you think?
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04-14-2012, 05:06 AM
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#93
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: USA
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Nothing personal to anyone.... I kinda ignored the thread without the button  but I'm still in megacrap day to day and have limited 'me' time before the kids wake up.
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04-14-2012, 10:25 AM
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#94
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: On a hill in the Pine Barrens
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Originally Posted by CMH in CO
I'm with Redbug and Johnnie. I don't see what the value of the ignore function is. Can't you just skip over their posts? I am very interested in what everyone has to say. Maybe when I am not so green here I will feel differently. There is entertainment value in scoffing at a post you disagree with too, don't you think?
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The boards I use have the ignore function. It is probably less useful here, as 100% of the posts are worth reading.
I think the valid reason for ignoring is that you just want to limit the new posts that come up. It does help. But it don't work for mods.
There probably is a way to block certain content in the browser, but is it worthwhile?
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04-14-2012, 04:15 PM
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#95
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: irradiated - too close to the nuclear furnace
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Even the few people that annoy me here (and it is only 2 or 3 at the most) I don't block. You never know if they have something of interest to say and if they don't I can stop reading their posts and go to the next in the thread. It takes a lot for me to ignore someone, don't think I ever did it anywhere.
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